Constituency
256. Gumla
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1957
BR-GUMLA
JHP 56.4%won by 27.3%INC 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedJai Hind Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.0% to 27.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 70.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatJai Hind Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
39,410
Margin
10,758
27.30%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JHP- 1SUKRU (BHAGAT) ORAON (ST)Jai Hind Party · JHP22,24356.4%
- 2AITA ORAON (ST)Indian National Congress · INC11,48529.1%
- 3BHIKHAM ORAON (ST)Independent · IND3,6289.2%
- 4LOUIS (ST)Independent · IND2,0545.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- JHP
- Winner now
- JHP
- JHP–INC swing
- +12.3%
- JHP share
- 42.8% → 56.4%
- INC share
- 27.8% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —